"رحلة أوترام وهافلوك في بلاد فارس، بقلم النقيب ج. هـ. هانت، ٧٨ هايلاندرز. يوجد في المقدمة ملخص عن التاريخ الفارسي، تقرير عن الاختلافات المتعددة بين إنجلترا وبلاد فارس واستفسار عن أصل الحرب السابقة. بقلم جورج تاونسيند، مؤلف كتاب "ملخص أوروبا الحديثة لراسل"". [‎١‎٠‎٠] (٣٩٠/١٢١)

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differences between
amount of the means wliicb. the shah succeeded
in collecting before it (nearly forty thousand
men and eighty guns), the want of artillery
in the town, the facility with which his ma
jesty has obtained supplies, the depressing
effect upon the Ileratees of the fall of Ghorian,
the failure of all their allies to afford them
efficient succour, and the unusual mildness of
season so favourable to the operations of a
siege—I confess the value of Herat has been
greatly enhanced in my estimation; and, al
though I have always regarded it as a most
important position with reference to the se
curity and tranquillity of India, I was not
prepared to look on it as so strong and de
fensible a place, or as one so capable of being
made a barrier to the advance of any hostile
power; and I feel that, if Herat should fall
into the hands of any such power, it would be
an evil even greater than I had hitherto be
lieved it would be." These considerations
induced Mr. McNeill to advise the English
government to interfere for the preservation
of the independence of this important fortress.
In the mean time other matters calculated